It’s all about pulling out the tones of your eyes, which can be achieved by using a contrast of light/dark, cool/warm, and mixing with other colors. You might use a color that you know makes your eyes pop alongside something that may be closer to it.

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I do wear blue shadows to go with my eyes but I don’t wear it very often alone; usually in a combination with another colour. But still don’t do it that often, experimentation has lead to finding colours that make my eyes pop!

Yes, I do. It’s kind of hard to avoid, since my eyes are the oddest mixture of green, blue and even grey, depending on the lighting. It’s quite annoying, actually, but I do love my grey eye shadows and will keep using them.

Not the exact same shade, but I do wear colours in the same family since my eyes are dark brown and it’s kinda hard to avoid brown shades. The colour I’m least likely to wear is blue, as I don’t think it does anything for me.

I have light blue eyes and I wear blues although not a lot- turquoise, cobalt, navy, etc. but nothing that matches exactly though, I tend to avoid greys too for the most part since they tend to make my eyes look very grey.

I have dark brown eyes and most of my shadows are neutrals so, yes indeed, I wear shadows the same colour as my eyes. I’ve read that brown is the one eye colour to which that rule about not matching your eye and shadow colours does not apply. I don’t wear a wall of dark brown…I’ve usually got something lighter on my lids or at least on the inner 1/3 if I’m wearing dark brown shadow in the crease and outer lid and I’ll sometimes use a bright teal blue (like MAC’s Birds n Berries) under my lower lashes for a little hit of colour and contrast.

Yes I do – my eyes are hazel (green/brown) and I find it’s not so much the overall colours to make them “pop” but the application. And with hazel eyes, there’s usually several colours in there anyway so it’s a bit hard to get away from!

My eyes are brown, so yes. I tend to use browns as shadows, since I wear a lot of neutral eye, and my fair skin makes very dark colors – like blacks – overwhelming if they’re not done subtly. Additionally, there’s a tiny bit of green around the edges of my irises, so I’ll occasionally mix khaki shades into the brown to make it stand out.

My eyes are a deep moss green. As much as I love green, I never wear it alone because then people see my green shadow; not my green eyes. When I do wear green, I smoke a dark reddish brown around the lashes for contrast. Using opposites on the color wheel makes eye color pop. Guerlain’s quad in Les Verts (Greens) is a perfect example of this concept: two beautiful shades of green, a soft taupe, and a dark brown with red undertones to use as a liner.

Nope!
I’m blessed with eyes that are so bright green that I’ve actually been asked if I’m wearing colored contacts, so I want to play up my eye color to the absolute maximum.
I do that by wearing neutral shadows and either black or dark plum liner and black mascara.

I have green eye, and my favorite look is actually a green one! I love Humid, Lucky Green and Bows & Curtseys, that’s my ultimate green look 🙂 Every time I wear a green look I get complimented for it, so I suppose that I’m doing something right :p

My eyes are a pale blue-grey with a few green flecks. I don’t really wear much green but I do love to wear a dark navy because I love the contrast between light and dark. And I love wearing greys, too. I love to do a little Groundcover (LE from MAC from this past summer) on the lid and Soft Brown in the crease to blend it out. The cool and warm combo is really flattering and even though those shades aren’t really striking on their own, together they look a bit unexpected.

If I wear blue, blue-grays, blue purples, turquoise, or blue-y greens, it looks as if I haven’t GOT an eye colour. Literally. Or perhaps as if I haven’t got eyes, they look that insignificant dressed in blues. So, no.
I think perhaps because my skin colour is also insanely cool and pale (PALE!), the effect of matching gets even more intense? Because there’s no eye colour-intensifying dissonance between the tones of my eyes and my skin, I just look completely washed out. Cool bronzes, glowy browns and pinky apricots are infinitely preferable!

I have dark brown eyes and I wear browns and neutrals everyday, but on special occasions I wear pinks, blues, and greens to make my eyes pop.

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